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Kanndice from Get Healthy Momma is a mother who is passionate about creating a green living environment for her kids that is both healthy and safe.
Your blog title makes it clear what the focus of your blog is. What inspired you to focus the content of your site on healthy living?
I started my blog when I was at my heaviest weight, about two years after I had my daughter. I was hoping that by putting my “stuff” out there, I’d have the motivation to really work on me. I wanted my audience to keep me accountable and encourage me along the way.
When my blog goals changed, to more of a healthy living blog, I just wanted to start spreading the word about things I loved- my children, the environment and taking care of our world.
How have your goals for your blog changed since you first started blogging?
Just shortly after I started my blog, I got pregnant. This obviously meant I couldn’t focus on my weight loss goals so I turned to more of a total, all around healthy living blog, which focuses a lot on my kiddos. My blog is now more of a place that I can express who I am and what I love – my kids, family, cloth diapering, living green, knitting, etc.
What tips can you offer people who want to get real with themselves and start living healthy?
Keep it simple, make it fun and take is slowly. Don’t make big plans and set goals to change everything all at once (this goes for weight loss, greening your home, eating healthy, etc.). Setting big goals is cause for failure. It’s true. I’ve done it MANY times. By setting smaller, more attainable goals, it’s much more exciting when you’re able to reach it.
A few examples –
Don’t take up running and plan to run a marathon in a month if you’ve never run before. Start with walking in the evening with your family. Each evening walk a little bit further. This is a great time to get out, explore your neighborhood, spend time with family and get exercise. TIP: Bring a camera for some great candid shots of you and your wee ones! 🙂
Rather than throwing away all cleaning supplies that are unhealthy to you and your family at once and changing everything to vinegar and water, start with laundry detergent. See how this affects your family, then move to cleaning your floors, use baking soda and vinegar. Slowly introduce safe alternatives into your lifestyle. Get used to the ideas first so it doesn’t ruin the whole process.
Other than healthy living, what is something you’re passionate about?
I am passionate about my family. They mean the world to me and I couldn’t be happier being a mom and a wife. I tell them every day how happy I am to be their mommy and how I feel like the luckiest person in the world to help raise them and teach them to be the best people they can be.
The best thing about being a mother is I can influence my children at such a young age to grow up green by recycling, composting, hanging clothes on the line instead of using the dryer, using cloth diapers, etc. I know we are making the right decisions for our children now and in the future!
In what way have you benefited most from blogging?
The community of people I’ve met online from blogging has been incredible! Everyday I am inspired by the knowledge, kindness, and awesomeness of other bloggers. I love being part of all of it!
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This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I have learned that this lifestyle change is especially hard when you’re in college.
Just take it slowly and you’ll be able to do it! Best of luck!
This is so inspiring! I had a hard time losing the baby weight.
Be sure to stop by often, I often post different exercises we can do with our babies! 🙂
Good ideas about starting slow with exercise and green cleaning. Sometimes I fall in the extreme “go overboard” thing and then I can’t sustain it and get discouraged. Heading over to the blog!
Lindsey @ GrowingKidsMinistry.com
I have done the “go overboard” thing too and it never works! I hope you enjoyed your visit! 🙂
What a wonderful site! Looking forward to reading more 🙂
Congrats on your SITS day!!
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed your visit! 🙂
Congrats Kandice, on becoming the SITS featured blogger! How awesome is that? I love your blog, and thanks to you, I’m becoming a little greener slowly! Thanks for all of you help, and keep up the awesome blog, the kiddos rock and are super cute!
Thanks! 🙂 I’m glad I’m able to give someone just a little inspiration to “go green” 🙂
Oh that baby is just too cute! Congrats on being the Featured Blogger and happy Monday to all you ladies!
Thanks! I think he’s pretty darn cute too! If you stop by my blog you’ll find I post LOTS of pictures of the two of them! 🙂
I can’t wait to read this blog. I have wanted to know more about living a healthier life!
I hope you find something you’ll like over at my blog! Thanks for stopping by!
I hope you find something you’ll like over at my blog! Thanks for stopping by!
Yay for healthy mamas! Happy SITS day!
Thank you!
Great blog, I’m always looking for healthy tips 🙂
Hope you’re able to find some tips on my blog! Thanks for stopping by!
Couldn’t agree more…So important if you’re gonna make huge changes in your health, way of living, whatever it is to start slowly. Another way to incorporate slow change is to use all your current laundry detergent before you start a new regimen. Or better yet start the new routine when you’re down to the last few loads and go back and forth for a few loads. Helps you see the old and new together and compare.
So true! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
I love your answer regarding “what inspired you”. Having your blog followers hold you accountable. This is something I am doing too, not everyday, but more for me to get things done around the house, or my “to do list”. If you know others are reading what you are saying and you want some credibility then you must get things done! Thanks. Will be checking your blog out.
Here is my list that I am still working on. http://farfromperfectmamma.blogspot.com/2011/04/to-doonly-5-days-left.html
Thanks for stopping by! It’s great to have people hold you accountable! It’s working for me! 🙂
I am always impressed by people who are able to figure all this out. And then grateful because now I can use their blogs as a “source!”
I won’t say I have it all figured out but I try! I hope you stop by often! 🙂 Thanks!
Love your ideas about making one small change at a time. It all adds up!
It sure does! Every little thing makes a huge difference if everyone does it! 🙂
Excited to check it out – I love what you say about starting to work out. I always get discouraged that I can’t run two miles as soon as I start running. I need to remember to go at a reasonable pace.
Try not to get discouraged (I know alot easier to say than do) but like I said, it’s worth it to take it step by step, little by little you’ll get there eventually and then imagine the excitement! 🙂 You can do it! Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Monday everyone! Hope your Easter was fabulous! We are currently in the middle of driving cross country which is why I haven’t been around lately…moving a house/family to another coastline takes a lot of work..lol but I’m here today! The FB looks awesome off to check her out!
I bet it’s a lot of work! Take it easy (as much as you can I guess), I really don’t enjoy moving! I hope you found something helpful, informative, encouring, at my blog! Thanks for stopping by!
Great tips!
Thank you! I hope you found them useful!
what an adorable photo! Looking forward to checking out her site!
Hope you stopped by and enjoyed taking a look! 🙂
I love your blog. You are an inspiration to your children and they are and will learn so much from you.
Thank you! 🙂
Love this!! Adoarble pics too!!
Thank you! :)~
I’m excited to go look around!
Thanks! I hope you enjoyed it!
this looks great – can’t wait to head over and check it out!
I hope you found something you like while looking around! Thanks for stopping by!
Sounds like lots of good ideas for healthy living! off to check out more.
Sounds like lots of good ideas for healthy living! off to check out more.
Hope you enjoyed your look around!
“Setting big goals is cause for failure. It’s true. I’ve done it MANY times.”
Very good advice, no matter what the project!
Your right, it doesn’t matter what the context is! Thanks for the comment!
Who couldn’t live a little healthier or greener?!
Even just with the little things! It all makes a difference! Thanks for stopping by!
Looks like a great blog. Off to check it out. Happy Monday.
I hope you enjoyed your look around! Thanks for stopping by!
What a sweet rosebud of a little girl! Gracious, she could be Snow White her features are so sweet!
Awww…thanks! 🙂
Happy Monday.
I love the take it slowly one-thing-at-a-time approach! I know I can be an all or nothing kind of person so it’s a good reminder to pace myself in other areas, too. This is something I think having children has helped teach me, too, because there are more days than not that not a whole lot gets done around the house and I just have to remind myself to take it one day, one step at a time with certain things.
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I totally use to be an all or nothing kind of person but I always felt like I was failing when I didn’t accomplish whatever it was I was doing or I gave up before I could do it. So by taking this one step at a time approach I’ve really been able to feel like I can do it! Thanks for stopping by!
Wow…what a perfect blog for me to read right now. thanks!
I hope you enjoy stopping by my little place! Thanks!
Happy Monday
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Luv the idea of keeping it simple, or at least trying! Started out making my own baby food in a mini chopper in 1983! Thanks for sharing your ideas!
You have to at least try to say you’ve done it right? Thanks for the comments!
Always looking for suggestions for greener living!
Bernice
Is it time to sharpen your saw?
I hope you find something helpful on my blog! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
Good morning everyone! What lucky kids to have such a great mom!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!
How inspiring! I am in the middle of moving and living in two homes. Healthy eating? Not so much, right now. Just a few more days and it will all be over and we can get back to our normal routines. Have a wonderful week, everyone. Spring has finally arrived in the Northwoods!
Good luck with the move! (I hate moving!) Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed the look around and found something helpful/useful while there!
I always appreciate when people say and mean it – start small when making changes of any sort.
It’s so true! Thanks for stopping by!
here in south africa it’s mandela day so we are all lazing at home which means i get to go and stalk a whole bunch of blogs!
Enjoy your day! Thanks for stopping by!
I need to go read and learn more green tips. I should be doing much more, great feature as always!
It just takes a little to make a big difference! I hope you find some inspiration over at my nook on the web! 🙂
I am glad to read more people are doing green.
LisaDay
Last Post – You stay here, mommy
Me too! 🙂
I love the simple ideas I am seeing. My family is trying to be more green. But I need easy to implement ideas for my busy life. Can’t wait to read more.
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you find something useful over at my blog!
Love how you are going to raise a responsible citizen:)
I hope so! Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Monday! I completely agree with you Kanndice, I started living more naturally when I had my daughter too. Every year we get a little greener, and that is the best tip you can give. Do it just a little at a time!
I am going to write a GREAT blog post today…I know I will! I am also working on creating a motivational video for my blog/YouTube, any tips?
http://www.unabashedlypassionate.com
All the best with your transformation to living a greener/healthier life! I’ll stop by for your GREAT blog post today! 🙂 Looking forward to it!
Sounds like a wonderful blog!
Thanks! Hope you enjoyed your look around!
“Keep it simple, make it fun and take is slowly.” That is such great advice, yet so hard to follow.
It really is that easy! Just work on one thing before you decide to change you’re entire life! I hope taking a look around will inspire at least one person to change one thing! 🙂 It’ll make a difference!
I love pictures of cute babies!
And I think mine are pretty cute!! 🙂 Thanks for the nice comment!
She sounds like a great mom!
Awww…thanks so much! 🙂 I really do try!
What a great mission… things we can all aspire to.
And taking it one step at a time makes it so much easier for us all! Thanks for the comment
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Healthy living is good. Off to check it out!!
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Thanks for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed your look around!
I like blogs about healthy living so can’t wait to dig in and see if i can’t learn some good things!
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I hope you enjoy your look around! 🙂
I love your blog header! (Love owls) your blog is soooo neat! I really need to get into homemade baby food. Now that my little girls is getting to the 1st stage foods!
Thanks for the header comment! I just recently changed it and I love it! Thanks! Making baby food is so easy! I’ll be posting some recipes my daughter loved soon, so check back for them! 🙂
Oh awesome that sounds good too me! I’ll keep a look out for them!